NVIDIA the hard way and suse-prime

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I have a laptop that has AMD Radeon graphics and NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1650 GPU on board. I want to install the 560 version of the NVIDIA driver and am following the guide:

https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_the_hard_way

In the past when I’ve used the NVIDIA driver from the repos, I could just install suse-prime and use prime-select to switch over to the NVIDIA card and use it exclusively. However when I try to install suse-prime it also wants to install the repo version which I do not want.

Is there a way to make this work? I really like prime-select as it’s easy to switch back and forth.

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I’m also running KDE as my desktop as that may make a difference in choosing alternatives.

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Install suse-prime from source like NVIDIA drivers?

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I do have AMD 4600H + Nvidia 1660ti and it should work without problems on tumbleweed.

you only need to add the nvidia repository via yast - add repository - community repositories. And that should do the trick.

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So I was able to get this working and ended up installing the NVIDIA 565 driver which I needed for gaming.

Essentially what I did was:

  1. installed suse-prime package which included the NVIDIA 550 drivers
  2. Uninstalled the NVIDIA 550 driver packages
  3. Add zypper lock for suse-prime package (zypper al suse-prime) - This will hopefully prevent the NVIDIA driver from the repo from being installed in the future
  4. Install the NVIDIA 565 driver from the .run file and allow it to rebuild initramfs
  5. Run ‘prime-select boot nvidia’ to set the dGPU to be used full time

After rebooting it’s booted using the NVIDIA card full time with the latest 565.57.01 driver.

Hopefully this will help someone down the road that may want something similar who has a laptop with iGPU and dGPU.

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